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World Polychaeta Database
Citatie
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta on yyyy-mm-dd. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/3114

Toegang tot data
Specifieke website
Beschikbaarheid: Creative Commons License Deze dataset valt onder een Creative Commons Naamsvermelding 4.0 Internationaal-licentie.

Beschrijving
A world checklist of Polychaeta, compiled by taxonomic experts and based on peer-reviewed literature. meer

Polychaetes are multi-segmented worms living in all environments in the world's oceans, present from abyssal depths to shallow estuaries and rocky shores, and even free swimming in open water. They are strictly aquatic annelids, but are the most abundant and diverse group of Phylum Annelida. Notably successful in mud and sand habitats, their densities there often exceed those of the sediment-dwelling molluscs and crustaceans alongside them. Polychaetes have soft bodies usually at most only a few centimetres long and pencil-thick, and they move relatively slowly, aided on each segment by the retractable grip of four dense clusters of bristles and hooks called chaetae, thus the name 'polychaete'.


Each of the over 80 families living today have characteristic body shapes and chaetal types. The families include for example centipede-like free-living crawlers like the nereidids and phyllodocids, colonial reef-building static forms with fans of head tentacles like the serpulids and sabellariids, flattened worms protected with shield-like dorsal scales like the polynoids, and predatory swimming worms with giant eyes like the alciopids. There are polychaetes specialised in many other unique ways, including in the ways they reproduce. Notably most Syllidae, Nereididae, and some Eunicidae (Palolo worms) metamorphose to become night-time swimmers to meet their mates, with timing of swarmings synchronised with the phases of the moon.


Scope
Thema's:
Biologie, Biologie > Ecologie - biodiversiteit, Biologie > Invertebraten
Kernwoorden:
Marien/Kust, Zoet water, Brak water, Classificatie, Mariene invertebraten, Soorten, Taxonomie, World Waters, Polychaeta

Geografische spreiding
World Waters [Marine Regions]

Spreiding in de tijd
Vanaf 1758 [Gestart]

Taxonomic coverage
Polychaeta [WoRMS]

Parameters
Taxonomie

Bijdrage door
Read, Geoffreydata beheerderdata creatortaxonomische editor
Fauchald, Kristiandata creatortaxonomische editor
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), meerdatabank ontwikkelaar
Bieler, Rüdigertaxonomische editor
Ferreira Gil, João Carlostaxonomische editor
Glasby, Christophertaxonomische editor
Glover, Adrian G.taxonomische editor
Gonzalez, Brett C.taxonomische editor
Kupriyanova, Elenataxonomische editor
Reuscher, Michaeltaxonomische editor
ten Hove, Harrytaxonomische editor
Wilson, Robintaxonomische editor
Zanol, Joanataxonomische editor

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Gepubliceerd in:
WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species, meer

Dataset status: Gestart
Data type: Data
Data oorsprong: Literatuurstudie
Metadatarecord aangemaakt: 2012-07-16
Informatie laatst gewijzigd: 2024-01-18
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